How to copy marked text in notepad

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I have a part of HTML source file that contains strings that I want to select and copy at once  using the regex functionality of Notepad     Here is a part of the text source    lt option value  Performance   gt Performance lt  option gt   lt option value  Maintenance   gt Maintenance lt  option gt   lt option value  System Stability   gt System Stability lt  option gt    I m using the regex   0-9a-zA-Z     to search the  value  values  I have also selected the feature in Notepad   search to highlight mark the found text  This working fine I now want to copy or cut only the highlighted text to clipboard for further processing  But I m not able to find this functionality in Notepad    Is this simply not possible or am I too dumb

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As of Notepad   5 9 they added a feature to  Remove Unmarked Lines  which can be used to strip away everything that you don t want along with some search and replaces for the other text on each value line    Use the Search-- Find-- Mark functionality to mark each line you want to keep copy and remember to tick  Bookmark Line  before marking the text Select Search-- Bookmark-- Remove Unmarked Lines Use Search-- Find-- Replace to replace other text you do not want to keep copy with nothing Save the remaining text or copy it    You can also do a similar thing using Search-- Bookmark-- Copy Bookmarked Lines  So technically you still cannot copy marked text  but you can bookmark lines with marked text and then perform various operations on bookmarked or unmarked lines

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It would be a great feature to have in Notepad    I use the following technique to extract all the matches out of a file   powershell select-string -Path input txt -Pattern   0-9a-zA-Z     -AllMatches          Matches     select-object Value  gt  output txt   And if you d like only the distinct matches in a sorted list   powershell select-string -Path input txt -Pattern   0-9a-zA-Z    -AllMatches          Matches     select-object Value -unique   sort-object Value  gt  output txt

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It s not possible with Notepad but HERE S THE EASY SOLUTION   You will need the freeware Expresso v3 1 http   www ultrapico com ExpressoDownload htm  I resorted to another piece of free software  Expresso by Ultrapico     Once installed go in the tab  Test Mode    Copy your REGEX into the  Regular expressions  pane  Paste your whole text to be searched into the  Sample text  pane of Expresso  Press the  Run match  button  Right click in the  Search results pane  and  Export to     or  Copy matched text to clipboard     N B   The original author is  Andreas Jansson but it is hidden in a comment  so since this page is high ranked in Google Search I leave it here for others

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This is similar to https   superuser com questions 477628 export-all-regular-expression-matches-in-textpad-or-notepad-as-a-list   I hope you are trying to extract    Performance   Maintenance   System Stability   Here is the way - Step 1 3  Open Search- Find- Replace Tab   select Regular Expression Radio button  Enter in Find what       a-zA-Z0-9 s       and in Replace with    n 1 and click Replace All buttton    Step 2 3  After first step your keywords will be in next lines  as shown in next image   Now go to Mark tab and enter the same regex expression in Find what  Field  Put check mark on Bookmark Line  Then Click Mark All    Step 3 3   Goto Search -  Bookmarks -  Remove unmarked lines   So you have the final result as below

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I had the same problem  You can list the regex matches in a new tab  every match in new line in PSPad Editor  which is very similar as Notepad     Hit Ctrl   F to search  check the regexp opion  put the regexp and click on List

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No  as of Notepad   5 6 2  this doesn t seem to be possible  Although column selection  Alt Selection  is possible  multiple selections are obviously not implemented and thus also not supported by the search function

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Try this instead   First  fix the line ending problem   Notepad   doesn t allow multi-line regular expressions   Search  Extended Mode    r n gt   Or your own system s line endings   Replace   gt   then  Search  Regex Mode    lt option   gt   value             gt    gt       if you want all occurences of value rather than just the options  simple remove the leading option   Replace   1  Explanation of the second regular expression     lt option   gt        Find a  lt  followed by  option  followed by                   at least one character which is not a  gt   value            Find the string value                     Find one or more characters which are not a   and save them                  to group  1      gt    gt           Find a   followed by zero or more non-  gt   characters                  followed by a  gt  followed by zero or more characters    Yes  it s parsing HTML with a regex -- these warnings apply -- check the output carefully

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I am adding this for completeness as this post hits high in Google search results   You can actually copy all from a regex search  just not in one step    Use Mark under Search and enter the regex in Find What  Select Bookmark Line and click Mark All  Click Search -  Bookmark -  Copy Bookmarked Lines  Paste into a new document  You may need to remove some unwanted text in the line that was not part of the regex with a search and replace

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